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/ STATE LEGISLATURE. ?'? - | ^ilis Tmt Have Become Laws Ibj That Body MICH WORK IS BEING BONE; Proceedings of the house and Senate From Day to Day?Mew Bills and Other Matters. It was expected that the discussion I on the now famous Cause "shad" bill would be concluded in the senate Monday. It was on the calendar for third reading and Senator J. \V. Ragsdalo moved that it be read. Senator Hardin noting the absence of Senator Walker asked that il be passed over, which was done. Senator W. E. Johnson has a bill 0:1 the calendar to prevent strikes au.l lockouts. This bill was read for the! second lime. This bill says Mr. John- j son. is identical with the one killed by tlie house a few days ago by two votes, 'but which passed the senate last year. He wants to give the bill a better chance for its life than it received before when many of its frieDds were absent from the floor of the house. The bill reads: Section 1. That from and after the approval of this act no cotton or woolen manufactory shall lockout or refuse or fail to give employment to operatives or employes because of friction, disagreement or tr.ouble of ^jmy nature whatsoever, between other s'ucb manufactory or manufacturories. and their operatives or employes, and no cotton or woolen manufactory shall lockout or refuse or fail tcrgive employment to Its operatives or employes for the purpose of coercion, or of assisting directly or indirectly any such manufactory whose operatives or employes have struck or discontinued work for any reason whatsoever, or which, ror any reason whatsoever, has locked its operatives or employes x cut, or failed or refused to give them employment; and no member of any labor union or labor organization composed of persons who are operat es or employes of any cotton or woolen manufactory, and no operative or employe not a member of a labor organization shall strike or refuse to work for their employer or employers because of friction, disagreement, between any other manufactory or manufactories, and its or their operatives or employes; and no member of such labor union or labor organization and no employe of such employer, whether a member of a labor organization or not. shall strike, fail or refuse to work as employed to work by such cotton or woolen manufactory on account of said trouble elsewhere. Set . 2. That the circuit judges of this Slate shall have power and authority. at chambers or in open court, to make such orders as may be necessary or proper to enforce this act. Baby Carriages as Baggage. House resolution No. 32U was also given its second reading. This bill amends section 1267 of the civil code by including baby carriages as bag I gage as well as bicycles. The amendK" ed station reads: "Bicycles and baby carriages shall be deemed baggage fo rtlio purpose of transportation by common carriers. Common carriers shall carry ^ bicycles and baby carriages under the same rules and subject to the same liabilities as govern trunks and other separate baggage of passage. No person shall be required to crate. rover, ices, oox or otncrwjse proicn bicycles cr baby carriages as baggage, under the provisions of this section. But said common carriers shall not be required to carry uioio than one bicycle or baby carriage for any one person. An interesting bill sent to tbo house was Senator Brice's to amend the code so as to make the office of state librarian appointive by the governor instead of elective as .at present. A number of bills relating purely to matters local to the counties were sent to the house. The only new bill Introduced was Senator Carpenter's relating to some moneys bold by the rounty supervisor of l'iekcns. The senate v. as in session less than hour. Just before adjournment c.ie j oody received from the governor the I special message relative to the vacancy on ine v.mtnroy noarn. The House of Representatives by a majority of one vote Monday killed Mr. Haskell's bill to repeal the. act authorizing a special term of court to be granted upon petition of a majority of the members of the bar of a county. | The vote was 50 to 49. Mr. Williams i moved for a reconsideration and this j time the vote was more decidedly against the bill?50 to 55. j THESE BECAME ACTS. The following having passed the Senate last year and having been given their third reading in the House, now become acts: Senator Paysor's to apportion the dispensary profits in Orangeburg county for 1908 (last year) so that half shall go to public schools and the other half to the ordinary fund. Senator Dean's providing for regula i.otis or r.re neparimem 01 urccnvinp. i Senafor Aldrich's bill to provide for | the deposit of funds accruing under the | act authorizing the issue of bonds for erecting a school in Barnwell. Senator Brown's bill to provide for J the office of master of Darlington ' county and to validate the acts of T. 1 H. Spain, acting master. Senator llaysor, to permit Orangeburg city school district to issue bonds to erect a school building. THIRD READING BILLS. The House bills which passed third reading and were sent to the Senate were the following: Mr. Lesesne to authorize payment of $590 to Faully Jail Building Company for balance due on the Clarendon jail. By Mr. Sinkler, to punish malicious and mischievous interference with police and fire alarm boxes. By Mr. Morgan, to add another section to the law as to violation of labor contracts providing that conviction of violation 3hould not terminate the contract. By Mr. Mace, to provide for a loau i of $12,000 from the State sinking fund to the county of Marion for the purpose of erecting a jail. By Mr. DeVore. a biil to change the law with rcferncce to public cotton weighers in Kdgefield. By Mr. W. C. Smith, bill to allow persons tried before a magistrate for any violation of law to be entitled to deposit with said magistrate, in lieu of entering into recognizance, a sum of money not to exceed the maximum fine in the case for which said person o;^ persons are to be tried. ' 1 By Mr. Ford, hill to change the boundaries of fourteenth magisterial ir I'nirKold rmintv. By Mr. Haile. a bill to grant to water power companies the same rights of condemnation as are granted tc telegraph and telephone companies. By l\ir. Jeremiah Smith, bill to pro- ' vide for payment of $200 past due ex- , prnse account of W. L. Richardson former county superintendent of education of Horry county. The house of representatives hay passed the ' biennial sessions bill." As , this measure came ever ftom the sen ate it will probably become an act soon. If so it means that the people of South Carolina will he called upon to vote on mis question in the next general election, and if a majority ol the votes cast are in favor o?* biennial 11 sessions, the legislature will meet ev , s erv secoud year after 190C. There jc was only one other matter acted upon i 8 Wednesday?Mr. Whaley's bill to reg ulate the assessment of taxes on build ing and loan companies was given sec ond reading after it had been discuss | ed at some length. The arguments on the two bills above named consumed the entire four hours of yesterday's session with the erception of a hall hour spent in presenting new bills and reports of committees. There was no third reading bill on the calendar. The fight on the biennial sessions bill has come up every year since the session of 189fi. There have been intimations that in the past the bill was advocated for "home consumption," and that the members of the house knew that in passing the bill they would rely upon the senate to kill it. But the action was brought about by conditions that had to be faced squarely. The senate had passed the bill last year, and the house? after its repeated kicks on account ol the lack of support on the part of tht senate on bills which before had beer killed?was called upon to declare itself in favor of the measure without any strings tied to it. The number of votes required was 8.1. and the bijl received 87. It is probable that a fight will be made, for there was some in tiraation to that effort. Discussion was also indulged in on the Building and Loan Bill. a ( Senate Proceedings. .f The bill to regulate the daily hours of f service of railway employes met its f death In the Senate Thursday by a vote t of 16 to 11. The bill was brought up ' for second reading and had been 1 amended by the committee so as to in- * dude telegraph operators, passenger 1 pr freight agents or any person em- I ployed in and about stations or depots, t Although 12 hours was fixed as the t time, a clause was inserted "except at ' the option of such employe and ex- f :ept in care of unavoidable emergencies > ind then only so long as may be 1 actually necessary. Provided." con- 1 :inues the bill, "that upon its being 1 made lo appear to the satisfaction of < he railroad commission that the duties )t any such employe are not such as to 1 require more than 12 hours of actual < abor or service out of each day, though fr he nature of such duties be such that * t is nec?ssarv for him to be in and * lbout said ofP.ce. slatios or depot for a ? .onger period; and. if It he made fur- < :her to appear that such longer hours \ of labor or servico will not be delri- i mental cither to such cmnloye. or to t ihe interests of the public, they may r aass an order, excepting such employe e "rom the provisions of this act." If complaint should be made to the t railroad commission it should investi |ate and enforce tiie act In the House. The number of the last hill introduced . ,n the House Thursday is 977. which 1 means that by the end of the session t here will have been presented in the . House and Sona'e something like 1.200 iii!s if the present rate keeps up. Klevcn wee introduced in the House ( and five in the Senate. Mr. Muses Introduced in the House i bill recommended by the joint legis- g ative tax commission, a bill to require '' he payment of annual license fees of r r onirawit iii hiwinpss in the ... - .. Slate. j. Mr. Thomas presented a hill throwing restric tions around primary elecrions. Mr. Bass, punishment for rape; and s jthprs by Mr. Anil. Mr Toole. Mr. f.esrsne and Mr. Tribhle. regarding 1 schools, almshouses, "fe.. in their re- a ipeetive counties. | In the Senate the following were pre- ? sented yesterday: Senator Shepaprd. to amend the law s is to voting precincts in the various ounties. 11 Senator Gaines, joint resolution re- y lating to the issuance of school certifi- p ates in Greenwood county. Senator Sheppard. concurrent resolu:ion to investigate whether it Is neces. * sary to make other constitutional changes so as not to conflict with the r biennial sessions amendment. a Senator Davis, to provide for the purchase of a poor-farm for Clarendon t ounty. 1 Senator Stanland. to authorize a h i -.inking fund for Dorchester county. t | Thp house of representatives Thurs; lay passed the "building and loan" bill b Ahich had been killed a day or two F previously, and killed all three of the pills relating to the creation of addi- r '.ional circuits in order to relieve the congregation of court business. n The bill to provide the manner of d .axing building and loan companies? eally the bill to exempt building and o I r>Q? rnmnnnies from taxation ? DaSSed t >eoond reading last Tuesday. Wed- d icsday when It came up for third read- 4 ng it was recommended, an action which was calculated to terminate the ife of the bill. However, the ways and neans committee rendered a unani- (, mously favorable report and the bill ^ .was restored to its former position on r he calendar on motion of Mr. Moses t Thursday. Yesterday it was given its Inanl reading in the house and was ^ sent to the senate. j There seems to be a lack of under- c Uandlng as the several bills providing 4 eiier for tne court, and tne nouse billed all three of thorn because those ivho advanced some kind of relief measure were working at cross purposes. They were unable to agree upon any one measure. There is in the senate a bill by Senators Melver vhich has the same provisions as Mr. DeBruhl's, ar.il this is the only chance tor legislation at this session. Mr. James Smith's bill to increase he bond of the treasury of Horry rounty to $12,000 was the only bill f?iven second reading. THE LANHAM BAGGAGE BILL. The free conference committee on he Lanham free baggage bill reported, ecommending that the house concur n thp. ?f?nate amondements reducine he amount of baggage from 250 to 200 sounds. The free conference eommit:ee inserted an amendment providing :hat the bill shall apply to only such oads as use steam for motive power. The report was adopted and the bill becomes a law. The house adopted the senate resoutlon looking for an investigation into he conditions which would obtain ;hotild the constitution be amended so is to provide for biennial sessions of he general assembly. Mr. Mauldin's and Mr. Kibler's bills alatinc to the. office of insurance romrissioner and to the rate made by inurance companies were made special rders. Half a dozen other bills were o treated. BUILDING AND LOAN BILL. The building and loan bill came up or a third reading. It had been a hird reading bill when recommitted iy the house Wednesday. The ways nd means committee had again irought in a report unanimously faorable. and had asked for the bill to ake its former place on the calendar. nils was aone. ana wnen uie uni i:?mc ip yesterday Mr. Herbert moved to ommit the bill to the judiciary comnittee. This motion of course, is hosile, and was aimed at the life of the >111. The house by a vote of 70 to 29 abled Mr. Herbert's motion and the >111 then passed third reading and was ;ent to the senate. When the debate was resumed on the 0-circut bill. Mr. Rainsford got the >ffloor. The people are much interested n this bill. From all over the State ome appeals for relief from congested lockets. But all that was learned from he debate of the lawyers Thursday vas that there is grave doubt as to vhether or not this measure would jive relief. Edgefield does not need it. ind the same may be said of other ounties in the State. Mr. Frasier had leclared that one cause of congestion vas the trial in circuit court of cases >f npttv theft MAGISTRATES' JURISDICTION. Mr. Rainsford declared that he has i bill to put such cases in the hands >f magistrates. He then argued in avor of increasing the jurisdiction of nagistrates. He did not seek to criti ise the lawyers, but he believes that hey take up too much time of the ourt getting cases postponed. Mr. Thomas had told of the bad state of iliairs in Ifciehmond. In reply Mr. tainsford declared that a judge who j resided here recently told the lawyers hat there would be less congestion if I hey would bo more zealous in getting ; heir cases to trial. Mr. Rainsford then j avored the creation of county courts n counties like Richland. Spartan>urg and Charleston. It would be unair for the smaller counties to help >ay Tor additional judges when such ounties do not need them. Mr. Magill. the author of one of the , n./.ircnit hilli? arciied the necessity i ! >f some kind of legislation. However. 10 is satisfied that the eommittee bill ; vill not answer the purpose. He renewed the arguments in regard to the r.crease in the wealth and population ' 11 the Stote since the eight circuits vore created two y?ars ago. He refer- 1 ed to the terms of his bill, showing 1 hat the circuits would be complete and 1 iractically of the same size. At the onclusion of his speech Mr. Magill 1 tated that he had beeu persuaded I hat the only bill which would give I he relief wanted is the DcBruhi bill, or neither his nor the committee's i >111 would do it. i NEW BILLS. i The following new bills were intreluced in the house: Mr. W. C. Smith, a joint resolution 1 o amend section 21 of article 5 giving o magistrates jurisdiction in criminal ases. Mr. Sarratt. a bill to exempt certain !tizens in Cherokee county from the axes levied for the fiscal year 1903. Mr. Blackwood, a bill to provide for n examination of. selection and apointment of court stenographers. Mr. Moses, a bill to amend section 25. volume 1. Code of Laws of South ."arolina, as to graduated tax on inomes. Mr. Davis, a bill relative to the perons entitled to pensions. Mr. Potts, q bill to repeal section 008. egulating the business of emigrant gents. Mr. Mauldin. a bill to abolish the ounty board of control and to provide or the appointment of county dispeners. Mr. Coleock. a bill regulating the landling of oysters and tarrapins within the State, and prohibiting the xportation of oystern in the shell out if the State. Mr. Richards, a bill to require school rustees to make annual reports to the atrons of public schools. Mr. Callison. a bill to require raiload companies to construct, maintain nd operate industrial side tracks. Mr. Kelley, a bill to authorize the lishopville graded school district No. 1 to issue $4,000 additional coupon onds for the purpose of completing he public school building. Mr. Danniel. to allow a dispensary to 1 ie established at Ten Mile Hill, in < Jerkeley county. 1 Af.? A *rr*r\nlr o Kill rolaHnp- tO Phatflp Gortgages and the foreclosure thereof. 11 Mr. Brooks, to limit the pay of th6 . nembers of the general assembly to 30 . ays for any one session. Mr. Moses, a bill to amend the Code f Laws of South Carolina in reference ( o the State board of assessors and its ( luties. ( Saturday's Session. The house of representatives Satur- ( lay gave second reading to 39 local , fIIIs. which are of considerable mo- , nent to the several localities affected hereby. The attendance Saturday was mall, and for that reason no bill was aken up if objection was made. In ad- j lition to the large number of bills lassd five others were withdrawn. The' 1 r * * ' caledar was becoming: formidable in size, a score of new bills being reported daily by committees and put upon the canendard for consideration, Getting these local measures out of the way will simplify matters very much. SECOND READING BILLS. Among the bills given second reading Saturday were the following which had passed the senate and with one more reading in the house will become acts: Senator Gaines' bill to permit Greenwood county to borrow money in advance of collection of taxes in order to meet expenses, school claims. Senator Blake's bill to authorizzo Abbeville county to pay F. C. DuPre, superintendent or education xor salary and per diem of certain officers who have been paid improperly out of the school fund. Senator Gaines' bill to pay H. J. Kinard certain claims against school dis tricts 1. 6 and 7 in Greenwood county Senator von Kolnitz's bill relating to punishment for intereference with fire alarm and police call boxes. The original bill made this offense a felony. The house amends by making it a misdemeanor. Senate bill fixing the time for ho ing elections of trustees of schools in Clarksburg. Senator Talbird's bill to amend law in reference to acquisition of land for public purposes by the United States so that the advertised notice in papers shall run six weeks (instead of four months as heretofore.) Senator Ragsdale's bill giving the United States government the right to acquire by condemnation o rotherwise land in this State for custom houses, court houses, postoffiees or arsenals; to give the United States exclusive jurisdiciton over lands so arquired; jurisdiction to be coterminal with the federal ownership. HOUSE BILLS PASSED. The following 33 house bills were given second reading and were ordered to their third reading Tuesday. Mr. Halle's bill to amend the law so that at the request of the president or treasurer of an industry the sheriff may appoint a special deputy in such communities of not less than 50 in naouanis. ine iaw ai picncm 10 im 100 inhabitants. Another clause in the bill exempts the sheriff from responsibility for the misfeasance, nonfeasance of misfeasance of such special deputy, whose duties are those of a constable. Mr. Coggeshall's bill relating to the hoding of courts in the fourth judicial circuit. Mr. Laney submitted a substitute agreed upon by the delegation from that circuit. As amended the bill divorces the sessions court from the civil, and the judge will first make a round of all counties, hearing criminal cases, and then another round at which civil business will be dispatched. Mr. Youman's bill to abolish the office of township commissioner in Hampton and to provide for the appointment of a board of assessors for tliat county. COL. TRIBBLE PAID $1,500. Mr. Walker to appropriate and to pay to Col. M. P. Tribble $1,500 for completing the Confederate records. The bill states"For service rendered in compiling Confederate records, under appointment of his excellency, D. C. Hepyward, pursuant to a provision in the legislative and judicial appropriation act. approved Feb. 25, 1903, part 1, United States statutes at large, page 884." Col. Tribble is a member of the House from Anderson, has been engaged in this work during the last year. Mr. Stackhouse's bill to repeal the charter of the town of Little Rock. Mr. Lide's bill to afend the act chartering the Eloree graded school fliufrinf olcn hu ATr T.iH#* n hill fn nav school claim of $101.75 of J. M. Fogle. Mr. Pollocks bill to authorize Cheraw graded school district to issue $12,000 in bonds for new school, lot and equipment. Mr. Bomar's billl to authorize Landrum to erect new school on bond issue; and a similar bill as to school at Duncan's. the amount being $2,500. Mr. Aiill's bill to allow Prosperity to ssue sj.OOO in bonds to build school louse. In the Senate Saturday a number if bills were presented: none of them, lowever. being of general importance, rhe members seemed anxious to get lome to spend Sunday. The Senate tdjiurned at an early hour. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Cener.il Frederick D. Grant has re Iii"juishod command of the Department of Texas. King Peter of Scrvia is said to lie prepared to abdicate and allow tne Powers to name Lis successor. King Christian returned to Denmark and was welcomed with a great illumination at Copenhagen. Major-General James F. Wade has been elected President of the Army and Navy Club at Manila. The * eported serious illness of former President Kruger is denied, he being at Mei-tone, France, in excellent health. Ilenry Harland, novelist, who has been spending a few weeks in the United States, will soon return to England. Lord Lami 11 gton. the now Governor of Bombay, has been made knight-commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. The Empress Augusta Victoria has been obliged io cancel several German court functions because of au injury to her foot. King Edward and Emperor William attended memorial services at London r* ?* <1 T)n??lin t?Aeno/?f 1 All tlia 1 hlfil U1U JUCl Ull, V1J , VII 1?IV UIIIU inniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. The festivities in connection with the seventy-fifth birthday of King Oscar of Sweden were celebrated recently all through the Scandinavian peninsula. Ellen Terry has a passion for cotages. The English actress owns three, [he one at Small Hythe being one of the finest examples of homely Tudor irchitecture in England. The Archduchess Augusta of Austria has just proved herself a good shot and a brave one. *On a recent luntiug party she chanced alone upon i large bear and coolly shot him dead. , 1 t I ? THE WORK OF RESCUE Gruesome Sights That net the Gaze of Brave Men Who Dared the Deep Recesses of the Wrecked nine. Further details of the mine horror of Monday morning are given in Tuesday'night's press dispatches. ' "Driving snow and sleet, aided by a biting wind did all in their power to hamper the movements of those who 1 came to Cheswick to aid in the work of saving the living, if there were any, and recovering the bodies of the dead at the Harwick Mine, in which nearly 200 men were imprisoned Dy an ex.- j plosion yesterday. Men came from mining districts all about the neighbor- ( I hood and did valiant work toward < searching for the dead. Early in the morning the mine inspectors. F. W. Cunningham, of the fourth district, in ! which the mine is located; W. R. ' Adams, of the third district; Henry j Laudiett, of the first district; Isaac G. Rohy, of the fifth district; James Blick, ( of the seventh district, arrived. Chief ( Mine Inspector Bfoderiek had also ] wired from Harrisburg that he would be on hand if needed. 1 "Cunningham was the first inspector 1 over the ground and spent the greater part of Monday night in the mine. ' Early Tuesday morning, snatching a few hours sleep, he went below again and after directing the movements of the .volunteer force in bratticing so as t to keep back the dangerous gas in | front finally announced that he was, ready to lead a searching party backf into the mine. The rescuers went back for many feet, but when they came to ( the surface they had no tidings of liv- , ing men still entombed. Up and down went the bucket in the bitter cold. Men ] clambered from the Icy elevator, dash- i ed to the nearby engine room and when wanned went back to the bucket and down the shaft. Then began the rigging of the platform cage?six hours ] work on a wooden platform to take ' the debris and the dead from the abyss. "Two places are already prepared to 1 refeive the dead. The school house is ready for use as a morgue and an- ] other building belonging to the com- ] panv near the entrance to the shaft is also in readiness. The two buildings ] * * Weuon T\f\ I J 2T0 QC^l^liill^U iW IllL/x 5uco, iaa>uuov mv j one who knows the story believes that a doctor's aid will be necessary except < perhaps for some of the rescuers. At 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon 16 1 men went down into the shaft to do the work of bratticing, bolstering, tun. , neling and removing the debric that | has so far bared their progress into the workings where the men were at labor when the explosion came. Their shift was supposed to be of three hours only. ( Even at that it was a hard task. Even , before the bucket reached the bottom i they were drenched with water, which the cotd draught through the shaft soon 1 turned to ice. Shortly after they were 1 let down, a temporary hoist that had 1 been rigged up to bring up the debris and the dead was started d<*wn the shaft. Then came snow and efforts i were made to reach the living men at ' the bottom of the shaft, but the wooden sides of the hoist, swollen by ! the water, stuck to the iron guide slide , and then came hours of manoeuvering to reach the bottom. The men below 1 I h3d no means of warmth and many of 1 | them were standing in deep water. * i-U - i Every effort was made to lower me cage and finally it was loosened and . got within 12 feet of the bottom. The < men were within easv reach of a rope, but their fingers, numbered and almost : frozen by the cold, were unable to ' grasp the ofTered help. "It was 8 o'clock when the first three , men of the party who went down at 3 o'clock were brought to the surface. , Not one of them was able to walk, they were so numbed by the cold, and they told of their experience in the mine below. Henry Beokert was one of the ' first men out of the cage. He was car- 1 rled to the boiler house and, after 2U minutes of warmth, managed to straighten himself and sav: "It was a frightful experience. Tne cold and hun- ( ger?and no good we could do. We wore loo cold to work. There is ap "> Wo harl a parent!}- no one to icatuc. _ hard time to find many of the dead. A shred of clothing here and another there, a jacket, a pair of overalls, but few bodies. When we left the bottom there were 12 bodies lving there ready to be brought up. There were many 1 others there, and the bodies of many ] will never be foiuyj." 27 Below Zero. St. Paul, Minn., Special.?According to the weather observer, the mean 1 temperature prevailing in St. Paul Sunday established a new record, be- J ing 27 degrees below zero. The maximum for the day was minus 22 degrees , and the minimum on the official ther- ] mometer was 33 below. The observer i predicted that at night at least 35 de- ' grees below would be recorded. He ^ held out but little hope of an allevia- ] tion of the cold weather before Tues- i day. A high wind prevailed early-in 1 the day, greatly intensifying the suf- ' fering of those compelled to be out of I doors, but at night the wina was abated. 1 Successful Safe Blowers. < Bristol, Tonn., Special.?A special to The Herald from Gate City, Va., says: ! Henry Green, white, and Monroe ( Strong, a mulatoto, are under arrest at Fort Blackmore, Va., on a charge : of robbing J. M. Harris' store. Mr. J Harris, it seems, never ran a bank , account, but kept his money in his ' safe. The safe was broken up and , I $1,200 secured. Other arrests wiL be ; made. J 4 < ' LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS] 4 ' Many Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down In Dixie. A warm fight on the Jordan Oyster * >' bill is expected to take place this week before the Virginia Legislature. Negroes lynched Lewis Radford, colored, at Guthrie, Ky., for an assault on a woman of their own race. The trial of Frank B. Lickliter, of Staunton, Va., on the 'charge of murdering A. L. Isbell, of Atlee, Va., near Handly, W. Va., began at Charleston, W. Va. The loss by the burning of the Rlrerview Hotel at Elizabeth City was $5,000. The Economist thinks the firs was of incendiary origin. A jury in the Federal Court at Norfolk fixed $475,000 as the correct Tarnation for the Schmoele tract of 272 acres desired by the Government for enlarging the Norfolk Navy Yard. Mrs. Edgar W. Tucker and her five children narrowly escaped being burned to death at their home in Richmond. Judge B. A. Hancock, of Petersburg Circuit Court, died at his home in Chesterfield county. The West Virginia Republican Stats Committee has been called to meet on February 3, at Wheeling. At The National Capital. The President has sent to the Senats Che nomination of William P. King, to be postmaster at Windsor, N. C. ill At The North. The United Mine Workers' convention at Indianapolis declared its opposition to negro disfranchisement. Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of the late Gen. William T. and of John Sherman, died at De3 Moines, Iowa. From Across Tbs Sea. Russia, in her negotiations with pan, is seeking to secure the neutrality; pf the St*alt of Korea. China jas begun a movement te mediate oetween Russia and Japan. Germans lost heavily in attempting to relieve Okahandja, Southwest Africa, which is being besieged by the Herreros. The siege of Santo Domingo By rebels is causing suffering among th? poor there. The manuscript of Milton's "Par?iise Lost" was offered for sale in London, but was withdrawn because the highest bid, $23,750, was not considered ?cough. . * A number of Americans were presented at Queen Helena's yearly drawing room in Rome. Miscellaneous Hatters. Between 180 and 190 men are beller- f ?d to have been killed by an explosion in the Allegheny Coal Company'* mine at Cheswick, Pa. To pre ent the passing of foreign tickets of admisison to the consecration today of Rev. Dr. Davis H. Greer as Bishop Coadjutor of Western New York, J. P Morgan, it is announced, . J will keep the door. J. Ogden Armour caused a break In the Chicago wheat market by unloading part of bis holdings. Another big advance was made in prices in the cotton exchange of New York and New Orleans, following Liverpool. Ice gorges in the streams of Mary^ land and neighboring States were still menacing. * ' ' Intense cold continues over a wide area of the West and Northwest. Police of Bedford, Ind., believe It was stated, that the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer was a rejected suitor. John B. Coggin, accused of embexiM'nsr monpy from a trust company at Nashua, N. H., was arrested. Serious charges were made in the . L ! -' -' -1' Tnhn Tao-pr nrnrao trial Ul riQliiv auu wuu r-? ters, in Chicago. A large number of army promotions are soon to be made. The first day of the third week of tho trial of A. W. Machen and others in connection with the Postoffice Invest!* gation failed to develop anything sensational. The Comptroller of the Treasury haa disallowed Joseph W. Parish's claim for $181,358 for ice furnished the Medi cal Department of the army. ', f The report of the health officer for th ? county of London for 1902 has just wen issued. It shows that London is one of the healthiest of the great cit ies of the world. The death rats from all causes in 1902 was 17.2 per 1.000 persons, compared with a rite of in St. Petersburg 23, Rome 21.9, Vienna 19.4, New York 18.7, and Paris 18.4. Berlin is superior with 16.1. Wars of the last 3,000 years are snpposed to have cost $600,000,000,000. Each man who falls on the battlefield costs $2,740 to kill,-and the countries of Europe today are paying to maintain in "armed neutrality" the small sum ? of $50 a second. John Connaughton, principal keeper in Sing Sing prison, has not visited New York city for twenty-nine years, and there is little likelihood that he will ever do so. The reason of this is that there are in that city a great number of men who would welcome an opportunity to kill him. In his capacity as prison-keeper for forty years Mr. Connaughton has earned the enmity of many desperate criminals, most of whom hate him with an intensity which would induce them to murder >hould the chance offer. > The Technology Club, composed ol tho h'ew York alumni of the Massar chusetts Ir.stitute of Technology, will hold its annual dinner on Feb. 5, at Lhe University Club, says tho Sun. Liquid sunsnme wm ut? sei veo tu cwu nf its members. Dr. W. J. Morton, who announced at the Club's last meeting the discovery of liquid sunshine, has given the formula for making it. It will be placed in a capsule it each plate with a glass of water. The rocm will be darkened, and each man will drop the capsule Into h's ^lass, and will make hi9 own liquid sunshine by introducing a tube of r% Hum into this water. jM